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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. With which motif is Miss Coulson most identified?
(a) Flowers.
(b) Wealth.
(c) May.
(d) Ice.
2. What does the narrator call the "most potent weapons of insidious May" (334)?
(a) Flowers.
(b) Warm breezes.
(c) Sunny days.
(d) Birds.
3. When the author compares May to Circe and explains the comparison at length, what literary technique is he using?
(a) Hyperbole.
(b) Synechdoche.
(c) Anaphora.
(d) Conceit.
4. What does Miss Coulson's believe about love?
(a) That it is humiliating.
(b) That it is overpowering.
(c) That it is a pretense.
(d) That it is inconvenient.
5. What is the "twist" at the end of this story?
(a) Miss Coulson runs away with the iceman.
(b) Mr. Coulson never had any romantic intentions toward Mrs. Widdup at all.
(c) Mrs. Widdup turns out to be wealthy, herself.
(d) Mrs. Widdup's husband is still alive.
Short Answer Questions
1. When Mr. Coulson is irritated, he complains that no one in the house does what?
2. When Mr. Coulson asks for his "aconite," what is he asking for (333)?
3. How does Miss Coulson spend the afternoon after her conversation with her father about the cold?
4. What is clear in the first interaction between Mr. Coulson, Miss Coulson, and Mrs. Widdup?
5. Whom does the narrator refer to as "the venerable and scarcely suspecting victim of May" (334)?
Short Essay Questions
1. What happens when Mrs. Widdup makes an excuse to go into Mr. Coulson's room to speak with him after the ice is delivered?
2. What is the thematic significance of the olfactory image of the city in springtime?
3. When rhetorical purposes are served by the passage where the narrator says that the scent of flowers was carried in through the window and "fought" with the scent of Mr. Coulson's gout medicine?
4. When Mr. Coulson comments that the spring weather is "lovely," his daughter replies "That's just it" (334). What does she mean by her reply?
5. Explain the technique at work in the sentences "Sparrows wrangled happily everywhere outdoors. Never trust May" (333).
6. When Mr. Coulson complains that no one in the house cares if he lives or dies, how does Mrs. Widdup's reply set the events of the story in motion?
7. How does O. Henry use verbal misunderstandings to characterize Mrs. Widdup when she first appears in Mr. Coulson's room?
8. When Miss Coulson says that the supposedly chilly weather is "An instance...of winter lingering in the lap of spring," what double meaning does she have in mind? (335).
9. What is Miss Coulson's plan to head off her father's budding romance?
10. What is the significance of the sound of the overturned chair after Mr. Coulson confesses his feelings to Mrs. Widdup?
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